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2010 World Cup Soccer: It’s Crazy for You

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Author: Smilemay
Date: Jun 21, 2010 - 3:03:02 AM

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It’s a contagion that has reached from one end of the globe to the other. It’s World Cup Madness.   It’s here and it’s catching! World cup mania can be observed all over the internet, on television, in shops, where many different foods are being branded with such names as Goal and Winner, on buses, in railway stations, at airports – just everywhere you look, there is reference to this phenomenon!   You’ll find the best World Cup Soccer Fan shop around here, where you can order all your World Cup memorabilia.

But just exactly what does all this mean? For South Africans it has reached fever pitch!   The stadiums are ready and have been tried out in pre-competition matches.   Infrastructure has been upgraded and improved to cope with the expected influx of Soccer fans and hopes are high that South Africa will continue to benefit long after the last goal has been scored.

For the first time, this long-awaited event will take place in Africa, which is surprising since Africa boasts some stiff competition for the coveted trophy. Teams from the Ivory Coast, Cameroon and Nigeria are training hard and have high hopes of keeping the FIFA trophy in Africa.

The South African team is not seen as one of the likely winners, but, the battle cannot be won before it is fought and a South African win would not be the first international surprise to come out of a FIFA World Cup competition. In order to make sure that the Nation of Rainbows meets all the criteria for this prestigious event, South Africa have established 10 stadiums all across the country, that all meet the required standards in every way and all can hold their own in a worldwide comparison.

The whole event is likely to be a colourful and rhythmic affair, and the streets of South Africa are now ringing to the sounds of ‘iDiski’ a new street dance based on football moves! The word iDiski means soccer or football and this dance is filled with all the emotion and raw energy that football evokes in the townships.

The opening Kick-off Concert was held in the Soweto Stadium where national and international artists performed to about 30 000 football supporters most of them waving green and gold banners, the flag of the local team, Bafana-Bafana. Dancers and drummers kept up an electric rhythm and world-renowned trumpeter, Hugh Masekela thrilled the crowds with his 1968 hit song ‘Grazin in the Grass’.   The atmosphere was one of excitement and spirit, with the unusual vuvuzela trumpets filling the stadium with their distinctive elephant trumpeting!   The vuvuzela is thought to be a modern day version of the ixilongo or mhalambala or kudu horn that was traditionally used to call villagers to war or meetings.

June 11 is the big day for the World Cup, the day of the Kick-off, but it also marks other historic occasions.   Forty-six years ago to the day, former South African President, Nelson Mandela was convicted of sabotage and sentenced to imprisonment on Robben Island and, on the same day twenty-four years later, the famous Free Mandela Concert was held at London’s Wembley Stadium.

But, on this day, June 11, 2010, South Africa and the world are all succumbing to the mania and fever of this historic Fifa World Cup and everyone is wondering who will be triumphant.

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